Child's death an 'accidental shooting'

9:57 PM,
Mar. 1, 2014

Escambia County deputies work the scene of a shooting Saturday on South Fairfield Drive near Eliasberg Street.

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A 2-year-old child was fatally shot in the head Saturday off Fairfield Drive in West Pensacola, Escambia County officials said.

Emergency Medical Service personnel responded to a duplex on the 1500 block of South Fairfield Drive near the intersection with Eliasberg street at about 10:25 a.m. to find the child, a boy, dead on arrival, Escambia County spokesman Bill Pearson said.

"I heard a pop this morning, but I just thought it was a car backfiring," neighbor John Jeffers said. "But then we saw the police cars swarm in." ...